Unfortunately for Chief Beck and the LAPD this won't end with Dorner's death. There will be FOIAs demanding the results of not only the orginial hearing, but the review as well. There was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to be gained by this review and Beck show have known better.

Pet Peeve but why do we have to read past the third paragraph to know what the article is about? Everyone is into long clever intros that have nothing to do with the topic until explained 3 pages later.

“My dad taught me never to poke an armadillo in the eye. I cherish those long sunny Texas days dad and I would spend hunting, fishing, and talking about life.... Which is why President Obama would have benefitted from dad’s advice when drafting his SOTU speech....”

Seems plausible that either they covered up the truth of Dorner’s accusation back then, or he already was an overbearing paranoid and made it all up. He’s no different than a hundred idiots who shot up their workplace or their ex girlfriend’s workplace. Maybe they were wronged but so what? This kook was murdering innocents 5 years later rather than move on with his life.

But hey let’s now encourage blacks to murder people everytime they think they get a raw deal.

Sometimes the coach is right. Other times he is a brain dead effing moron. This is one of the latter.

The police in LA made blunders that probably rise to criminal levels.

Evaluating whether the target of this man hunt was someone who had been legitimately wronged and was driven by a twisted sense of justice or whether he was just plain delusional is not one of those blunders. Given the stupid crap the LAPD has been caught doing in recent years, humbling the department in public was reasonable and over all a good PR move.

Unrelenting arrogance is not the virtue the coach imagines it to be.

12 posted on 02/14/2013 9:43:08 AM PST by MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)

The killing spree confirms that they were right to get rid of him, whatever the pretext. The fact that he was ever allowed to wear a badge suggests to me they should review the process that allowed him to be hired in the first place. How did their screening process miss the fact that he was a ticking time bomb.

The only thing worse than a fascist in charge of a police department is an incompetent fascist. Oh, hi there, Charlie Beck...

How about the inappropriateness of deploying 2000 cops to catch one guy? And then sending them out of their jurisdiction?

Once Reserve Officer Crazy Pants fled the city and the county, it was incumbent on the LAPD to butt out. But they do whatever the hell they want when they’re going after someone who shot “one of their own.”

There was a shooting of an LA school district police officer at a high school one morning near my house a couple years ago. (Turned out the guy had discharged his own weapon in a weird love triangle, but whatever...) Word went out: OFFICER DOWN! And over a THOUSAND cops cordoned off my neighborhood for hours. For miles. The number of cops was confirmed in the LA Times.

Nobody was allowed back into their homes till late at night. If you drove out of the area or left on foot, you weren’t allowed back in. Cops standing around on corners threatened the residents with arrest, using abusive language — residents who were just asking what the hell was going on and when could they return to their homes?

They unilaterally suspended the Bill of Rights. Because it was “one of their own.”

Why are cops entitled to that kind of overwhelming, unnecessary response when clearly nobody else is? When did our overseers enact special rights and privileges for themselves?